Friday, July 20, 2007

I made an orthodox rabbi chuckle on the subway.

Maybe that's all you need to know.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Come on Ben, you've got to give us more than that.

Ben said...

Yeah, Mom said so too. Well, I was on this rain talking with a couple of my co-trainees, and somehow or other the subject got to cheesy, washed-up musical performers.

So I told the story of how, my freshman year at TCU, the school had Vanilla Ice come and perform for our freshman welcome week festivities. That's right: I have seen the song "Ice Ice Baby" performed live by Vanilla Ice.

Anyway, this orthodox rabbi had walked onto the train at the stop before - he was wearing the black hat, had the beard, the whole nine yards - and he was standing nexto to me, facing me, and sort of glancing over at me as I told all this to the others. So as I finished, I looked him right in the eye and said, "True story."

He chuckled. I felt that I'd had a very New York sort of moment.

Melanie said...

And the rabbi definitely had a book with him titled, "Tradition".

mikepettengill said...

So, a rabbi, a Christian missionary and a rap singer walk into a bar...

Ben said...

...and the bartender says, "What is this, a joke?"

Anonymous said...

Are you sure it wasn't Matisyahu?!! I think he cut his teeth on Vanilla Ice...when he was 4 1/2 years old!!